Anger or calm.

In two days, thousands of Conservative councillors around the country will face the wrath of an electorate not quite sure what they stand for, but for whom protest, in the form of a vote for Labour, will come incredibly easily. The peculiar thing is that most people...

Returned

For some reason closely associated with the boring nature of the first half of any government, a novel I’m trying to write. SaveEd.org and the release of Battlefield 3 (a violent computer game) I have not been blogging. Happily, David Cameron has finally done...

Ireland and the Universal Periodic Review

Ireland today subjected itself to the most palpably insane political process imaginable. Taking part in the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter TD, faced questions from Ireland’s peers, the nations of the...